Rifle Scopes Schmidt & Bender 5-25x56mm PM II/LP elevation adjustment range help

[Raptorman2014]

I have a PMII, like the screenshot below. On my rifle, I have a 30 moa rail. I zeroed it today and only had 19 mil up from my zero. Does this seem right with 30 moa rail?

I thought I read that the PMII had 100 (~30 mil) MOA of adjustment, and you could only use 26 mil inside of the 100 moa (~30 mil).

 

[VegasHKShooter]

The 30mils is TOTAL adjustment. Up and down. If you got zeroed and have 19 mils of upward adjustment you are totally fine.
On my 6.5CM, I’m 25mils to 1760 (mile). So I can dial 19, and hold 6 to get there. And, I have, that’s how I know.
19 mils of up travel is fine, and seems perfectly normal. I’m almost exactly the same with my A.I. and my 5-25 PMII. That’s 68.4 moa of travel.

 

[Raptorman2014]

The 30mils is TOTAL adjustment. Up and down. If you got zeroed and have 19 mils of upward adjustment you are totally fine.
On my 6.5CM, I’m 25mils to 1760 (mile). So I can dial 19, and hold 6 to get there. And, I have, that’s how I know.
19 mils of up travel is fine, and seems perfectly normal. I’m almost exactly the same with my A.I. and my 5-25 PMII. That’s 68.4 moa of travel.

30 (total)/2=15mil is middle + 9 mil (30 moa) (scope base) = 26 mil of travel up ???

Did I do my math wrong? Shouldn't I have 26 mil of up adjustment?

 

[Mute]

Are you sure you mounted your rail in the right direction?

 

[VegasHKShooter]

Also have to remember you’re not going to be EXACTLY in the middle of your scope. If that was the case, we could throw a scope on, set it in the center, and we’d be sighted in.
I’m just saying, 19 mils of upward travel is about perfect.

You’re expecting to put it on, be in the absolute center, and be gtg. That’s not totally how this works.

 

[Steel+Killer]

I have a PMII PSR 5-25 with a 20MOA / 6MIL rail and I am left with 20.5 of up travel from my 100yd zero with a 24" 6.5CM

 

[Angel0632]

If you want all the travel a 45moa base or mount is recommended, I run a spuhr with 44.4 moa on a 0 moa rail and get 26 mil of travel, way more than I need but it’s nice for those random elr shots purely for fun

 

[Steel+Killer]

Unless most of my shooting is ELR I would rather have my erector closer to center if I only occasionally needed to dial out that far you can always dial plus hold what you got left in the reticle.

 

[918v]

R u sure your rail is 30moa?

 

[mattwaage1]

That sounds low. Mine are mounted with 0 moa mounts and have 19 I think.

 

[Raptorman2014]

R u sure your rail is 30moa?

 

[Raptorman2014]

Looks canted and on the correct direction.

 

[Raptorman2014]

Seekins 700SA-30-6 is what the rail says

 

[Raptorman2014]

I would have thought I should at least be in the low to mid 20's

 

[hk dave]

Yah it looks correct. Either something didn’t get installed correctly, or the receiver to barrel install must be negating the cant somehow.

I think I recall getting 21-22 with a Moa rail with the same scope.

Have you tried a different scope? Reinstalling the rings?

 

[EXTREMEPREJUDICE]

Your PMII is designed to use a 45 MOA base, so if you added the 15 MOA difference from your base to spec. (4.36 MIL) it would put you at 23.6 MIL of useable elevation, just about perfect. Depending on action/receiver design and ring height there will always be some variance.

 

[Raptorman2014]

Yah it looks correct. Either something didn’t get installed correctly, or the receiver to barrel install must be negating the cant somehow.

I think I recall getting 21-22 with a Moa rail with the same scope.

Have you tried a different scope? Reinstalling the rings?

That was my next step, throw a different scope on.

 

[Raptorman2014]

I did have a weird issue after zero, I only had 9 mil up even with the rev indicator black (first rev). took off and put back on and it fixed it self.